SketchUp Hardware and software requirements

Like many computer programs, SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro require certain hardware and software specifications in order to install and run. These are basic requirements, though, so you may want to use our recommended suggestions to improve performance. The following list of requirements and recommendations apply to SketchUp Pro 2015, SketchUp Make and all previous versions of SketchUp:

Windows 8+ and Windows 7+

Software

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher.

SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 4.0. For more information about the .NET framework, click here.

SketchUp for Windows can run on either 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, note that you must download and install the appropriate version for your operating system.

Recommended hardware

2+ GHz processor.

8+ GB RAM.

500 MB of available hard-disk space.

3D class Video Card with 1 GB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.

SketchUp's performance relies heavily the graphics card driver and it's ability to support OpenGL 2.0 or higher. Historically, people have seen problems with Intel-based cards with SketchUp. We don't recommend using these graphics cards with SketchUp at this time.

3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.

Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.

Minimum hardware

1 GHz processor.

4 GB RAM.

16 GB of total hard-disk space.

300 MB of free hard-disk space.

3D class Video Card with 512 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.

3D class Video Card with 1GB MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.

3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.

Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.

Minimum hardware

2.1+ GHz Intel™ processor

4 GB RAM.

300 MB of available hard-disk space.

3D class Video Card with 512 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.

3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.

Compatibility Changes

SketchUp 2015
With the release of SketchUp 2015 we’ve removed support for Windows Vista, Windows XP and OS X 10.7 (Lion) and earlier. Additionally you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 or greater.

SketchUp 2014
No System requirement changes were made.

SketchUp 2013
With the release of SketchUp 2013 we reduced the level of support we can offer for Windows XP and removed support for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and earlier.

SketchUp 8
With the release of SketchUp 8 we removed support for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and earlier.

SketchUp 7
With the release of SketchUp 7 we removed support for Windows 2000 and earlier.

Unsupported environments

Windows Vista and older
These versions of Windows are no longer supported.

Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and older
These versions of OS X are no longer supported.

Linux
A Linux version of SketchUp isn't available at this time. However, you may be interested to see how others have had success running SketchUp on Linux using Wine.

Virtualized Environments
At this time, SketchUp doesn't support operation in a virtualized environments such as VMWare or Citrix.
Per the SketchUp Pro Terms of Service: You may not use or host the Software in a virtual server environment.